Increasingly, I see letters in The Argus professing dismay at some "outlandish" proposals being put forward by Brighton and Hove City Council and being supported by Ken Bodfish.

I have voted Labour all my life but am increasingly taking stock of the actions of this council and its councillors and officers and deciding, for the first time, they may not deserve my vote any longer.

Make no mistake, the people of Brighton and Hove elected the councillors and perhaps it is time they were given a jolt and had their majority reduced or taken away. Then, perhaps, some

of the city's wrongs could be put right.

There is much to be put right, not least law and order. The police, as always, are lions led by donkeys and more officers are needed. Perhaps then the Chief Constable could cease his pathetic excuses when crime scenes need to be attended as soon as possible rather than a couple of days later.

As always, I am firmly opposed to any more waste of money on the pile of junk that disgraces the Hove shoreline. My heart leapt when I drove past as the thing was falling into the water during the last big gale.

However, since then, a bunch of jumped-up, never-come-down, over-inflated egotistical nobodies want to waste millions of pounds of money that is not theirs on restoring the heap of junk which was never a good pier anyway.

-Rod Ackers, Lucerne Close, Portslade